Been quiet - working on moving cinematic space beyond the screen into reality. As such have been deeply immersed in augmented reality, intelligent environments, sentient cities - strategies to add more cinematic drama and philosophies to reality.
This is my favourite example of reverse augmented reality gathered in my research so far…
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Philips’ new fermata vid fizzes.
Our societal Coulrophobia–the fear of clowns–continues around the Carousel, an epic maximalist time-slice short from Adam Berg to showcase Philips new Cinema 21:9 televisions. Distilling a modish SWAT team/clown melée (reminiscent of Batman: The Dark Knight, and reminding me of John Woo’s Hard Boiled), this showcase short offers a masterclass [...]
Congratulations to Smith & Foulkes who’ve just been nominated for the 2009 Best animated short Oscar for This Way Up. You have the opportunity to see the film as a free download from iTunes as part of a Sundance Film Festival tie-in until 25 January.
I’ve been a huge fan of the output of Nexus Productions [...]
In honour of Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration, a neat music video with polished moving typographic treatment.
Obama ‘08 - Vote For Hope from MC Yogi on Vimeo.
Archangel’s How To Lose Your Best Friend by Director Eduardo Benchoam through the Guatamalan-based Colectiva arts production company.
Refreshing how a simple idea done right can add some zest to a lo-fi, rough around the edges, video: a simple interactive site allows you to rearrange and follow five characters - remixing the video yourself in [...]
Sans Soleil promo by Dinnick & Howells ably illustrates promising upcoming trend: music videos as educational primers. This one on the human body. Superbly polished finish, from the engraved typeface, to the treated illustrations.
Sans Soleil, Asprovalta, music video from Jonathan Howells on Vimeo.
Trailer for Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, NY. Looks difficult, obtuse, uncompromising, uncomfortable of genre = perfect directorial debut from Academy award-laden screenwriter?
CR Blog has an exclusive first-look at maxi-promo/short film for The Cinematic Orchestra, directed by Up the Resolution. Poignant, beautifully shot short film hybrid. Elegiac memory fragments, punctuated by black fade lacunae.
We were initially approached by Vez, commissioning on behalf of Ninja Tune, to submit two separate animated treatments for The Cinematic Orchestra tracks, To [...]
Nagi Noda RIP.
Would have loved to get her work in Remixing Music Video, but things didn’t come together. Glad I programmed some of her earlier work in the UK though, bringing it to a new geography/audience. She had a tough time as a female creative director in Japan, but managed to break through and create [...]
In honour of the Beijing Olympics, posting one of my favourite music videos of Spike Jonze, Electrobank for the Chemical Brothers, starring Sophia Coppola.
Am wondering why more music videos don’t use this milieu, it feels like an area ripe as a visual playground. Jonze sets the bar high as ever, but there’s still plenty of [...]
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